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FAN. No. 279,050. Patented June 5,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

SAVILLION VAN GAMPEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HASTINGS, TODD 8t SOHANOK, OF SAME PLAOE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,050, dated June 5, 1883.

Application filed March 1, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SAV'LLLION VAN CAM- PEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in'the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fans, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement relates to that class of fans which are capable of being folded up or closed together; and the object of my invention is to provide a fan of this character having the requisite strength and firmness, which is made from one piece of material, all as will be here inafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, which serve to illustrate my invention, Figure 1 represents the blank or sheet of material from which the fan is to be cut, the line of cutting being indicated by the dotted lines and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the fan in its finished condition and partly opened.

Heretofore in the construction of this style of fans the body has been made of two pieces of suitable material, generally paper, secured together and mounted on sticks, which turn on a pivot to permit the fan to be opened and closed.

The object of my improvement is to simplify the construction of such fans by dispensing with the sticks or slats of wood, which require to be inserted and secured within the body of the fan; and to attain this object I construct the fan, including the body or plain portion and the sticks or slatted portion, out of one continuous piece of material.

Referring to Fig. 1 of the drawings, a represents a blank sheet of suitable material, preferably thick paper, from which the fan is cut. The dotted lines indicate the shape of the piece as cut to form the entire fan, and of which b may represent the body, and 0 0, &c., the sticks, corresponding to the wooden inserted sticks used in the ordinary paper fan. The plain portion 7) and the slatted portion 0, which serves the purpose of the usual sticks, are

cut out at one operation from a single sheet of material. In practice several thicknesses of paper may be employed, so that a large number of such fans may be 'cut at one blow of the cutting-instrument.

In Fig. 2 the fan is shown in its finished state, and partially open. (Z represents the crimps or folds, the edges of which are on a plane with the edges of the sticks 0, so that the sticks assume a slightly-twisted position when the fan is fully expanded, whereby their rigidity is considerably augmented at the point where the strain'is greatest when the fan is operated. be of wood or of any other suitable material, and which are secured to the parts I) 0 by cement or gum in the usual manner. f is the pin or rivet to hold or bind the slats together, and on which they turn.

It will be observed that the inner and outer boundary of the blank which composes the fan describetwo different segmental curves. Hence when the ends of thejslats are pivoted to-' gether, as seen in Fig. 2, they turn on a pivot or pin arranged out of the center of the circle of which the fan proper forms a segment.

By my improvement a large saving in time, labor, and material is effected in the construction of this class of fans that is, such as are commonly made of paper and with slats in serted or attached, formed out of wood or other similar material.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A fan adapted to be folded together, composed of a plain body-piece and a slatted portion forming the sticks or slats, made of asingle continuous piece of stiff paper or pasteboard, in the manner shown and described.

SAVILLION VAN OAMPEN. XVitnesses:

GEORGE WV. HUTCHINSON, IV. H. DUNCKLEY.

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